[johnny]

Originally Posted by Yuki

Why does everyone have to have killed parents anyway? xD I don't get it. Only one of my characters have lost their parents. Or one of them...well.

YES.

Apparently the universe is just full of orphans who witnessed their parents killed in awful crashes/fires/raids/bandit attacks/falling houses/whatever.

My characters come from somewhat realistic backgrounds. Either they have both their parents and the parents are happily married, or their parents are divorced and they have step-parents, or maybe one parent is dead. I think I had a character be an orphan once, but it was in a story where vampires had taken over a city and killed off most adults over 40, so it made sense to have a few orphans in there.

And I think I had a guy character who was disowned by his parents, so he was mentally an orphan.